• Born: 1959, Durham, North Carolina
  • B.A.: Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1982
  • M.A.: Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1983
  • Ph.D.: Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 1991
    • My research had to do with the use of canon law in literature and preaching in the 13th and 14th centuries. Dissertation: Thirteenth century latin poetry contests associated with Henry of Avranches with an appendix of newly edited texts.
  • Postdoctoral fellow, Groningen University, The Netherlands, 1992-96
    • Working on the theme of encyclopedias, in particular on the text of John Bromyard’s Summa predicancium. Edited a volume of conference proceedings: Pre-modern encyclopaedic texts: Proceedings of the second COMERS Congress, Groningen, 1-4 July 1996.
  • MLIS: University of Western Ontario, 1998
  • TAL Online Developer, The Alberta Library, 1999-2001
    • First developer of the virtual union catalogue TAL Online.
  • Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian, University of Alberta, 2001-present
    • Responsible for, among other things, the technical aspects of the Peel Prairie Portal digitization project.